Lamorran

Noted in 'On the ancient stone fonts of Cornwall' (1851): "an ancient font, evidently of the Norman period: there are heads at the corners supported by shafts, and the bowl rests on a large central pier. It has recently been freed from a grievous load of plaister." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Cox (1912) lists this as a 13th-century font, "late Norm[an] but has been disfigured and modernised", made of "dark Catacleuse stone, sometimes mistaken for Purbeck". The GENUKI web site [www.genuki.org.uk] reproduces a quote from Charles Henderson's 'A Parochial History of Cornwall': "The cataclewse [sic] font is either a mock Norman production of the 15th century or genuine Norman font subsequently re cut [sic]". Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Circular, Norman, on five supports, with four corner faces and no other ornament." Illustrated in A Snap in Time [http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Lamorran.html] [accessed 17 November 2009]. The font is of the general Cornish type, with four outer columns connecting with the upper basin at 90-degree angles; re-cut.